The Washington-based Carnegie Endowment is hosting a two-day conference titled “The South Caucasus 20 Years of Independence.”

The participants will examine the lessons learned from twenty years of independence and state-building in Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia and discuss the best paths of future development in the region.

The event will bring together more than twenty experts, academics, journalists, and civil society activists from the South Caucasus to discuss the evolution of human rights, economic reform, and the media, as well as the role of Western institutions in promoting democratization in the region.

Among the participants are former U.S. Ambassador to Armenia John Evans, former U.S. Ambassador to Azerbaijan Richard Kauzlarich and former U.S. Ambassador to Georgia Kenneth Yalowitz.